Mark:  I'ts just opinions and friendly discussions, Mark.  Everybody
does things like camping a little differently and it's fun to voice
your opinion and see how others do it - not passing judgement on
anyone.

On 6/9/10, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
> Why do so many here seem to think that how they live and do things is
> the only ideal and anything different is verging on evil?
>
> The "majority of humanity" does without a lot of things you have, is
> that really the standard you wish applied to yourself or only to those
> you deem your lessers at camp?
>
> Camping in a Vanagon of any sort is far above where I and many others
> started out. A knapsack and blanket was all I needed 40 years ago when I
> was 16. I later moved on in stages to bike camping, motorcycle camping,
> car camping, and now van camping. At what point did I go wrong? How do I
> reverse the effects of aging so I can sleep on the bare ground again?
>
> I have seen people be happy with almost nothing at camp, as well as
> others that were content with far more than I would even want. The point
> is to go places and do things with a smile in your heart. Build a wall
> of smug superiority around your heart instead if you must but please
> leave it off the Vanagon list as we are a diverse bunch with varying
> ways of doing things, evolving at our own pace.
>
> Mark
>
> Don Hanson wrote:
>>    Yeah, "camping" in a Westie....that's really what is called
>> "car-camping"
>> .  When you pull your vehicle right up to a picnic table and live out of
>> it...that is "car camping".
>>
>>   If you spend most of your time inside, in your air conditioning, I'd say
>> you aren't camping anymore, you are "RV-ing"  I'd be really put off if
>> some
>> Westie spied us in a formal campground and "camped" next door (because we
>> are Vanagon folks, too) and then they fired up a generator to run their
>> air
>> conditioner and watch videos and run the microwave...etc etc.
>>
>>    I don't really get the point of driving to some semi-remote "campsite"
>> only to spend the whole time "indoors"...especially indoors in a
>> Vanagon..You may as well stay home indoors or bring a "real" RV, one with
>> a
>> couple of pop-out rooms and some TVs and stuff..
>>
>>    Doesn't the majority of humanity do ok without AC?
>>
>> Don Hanson
>>
>>
>>
>

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